By Steve Otto
It is bad enough that Texas politicians, of the Republican Party, tried to completely
ban abortion. Along with the ban they are trying to complicate things by turning
citizens into law suit happy toy cops, vigilantes or busy bodies.
Abortion clinics across the country already have to deal
with trouble makers who put glue or tooth pics in their locks in attempts to
keep the clinic doors from opening. They have made use of all kinds of nasty
tricks against clinics including the murder of Dr. George Tiller on May
31, 2009.
This new law was discussed in Catholics
for Choice:
“Catholics for Choice, which uplifts and amplifies the voices of the
majority of Catholics who believe in reproductive freedom, condemned Texas’s
dangerous and unconstitutional new abortion ban and the United States Supreme
Court for allowing it to take effect today despite ongoing legal challenges.
The law bans abortion after six weeks, in direct violation of Roe v. Wade, and allows private
citizens to file suit in state court against anyone who helps a Texan terminate
a pregnancy – from doctors and medical staff to the spouse or clergy member the
pregnant person may have discussed their decision with, the family member who
may have helped pay for the abortion, or the friend who might have given them a
ride to the clinic. If that random private citizen wins, the law awards them a
minimum of $10,000 plus attorneys’ fees. And, if the target of their lawsuit is
an abortion provider, the law orders the court to shut down that clinic.”
I don’t understand why these conservatives want to change
their citizens into busy bodies, crybabies and snitches. Most of the people I
know hate snitches. And many of us hate vigilantes or as we call them “Toy Cops”
or “cop wannabes.” There used to be a character in the old sitcom Bewitched called Mrs. Gladys Kravitz.
She was always spying on the Steven’s family. She was an annoying character and
that is what future citizens of America will look like if these Texas
politicians get their way.
Suing a driver for taking a woman to get an abortion is one
of the most ridiculous and cruel ideas I have ever heard of. For the simple act
of driving a woman in a car to a clinic
It’s amazingly cruel. It is almost like something out of a
bad movie plot or something we might expect from Nazis. It is hard to believe
anyone would seriously want this.
It also sounds like it violates our constitutional rights in
so many ways I could write a book about it. It’s just plain childish.
Do we really want a nation of crybabies and snitches running
around trying to play “toy cop?” To take advantage of such a law a person would
have to be a real “low life” character that most of us, left OR right, would despise.
Pix from Snitches
From Both Sides Respond to FBI Snitching Form.
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